https://matildatjader.com Matilda Tjäder Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:12:36 +0000 https://matildatjader.com en https://matildatjader.com/Page-Nav Tue, 12 Oct 2021 02:00:59 +0000 Matilda Tjäder https://matildatjader.com/Page-Nav https://matildatjader.com/Shelf-Life-album-2026 Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:54:45 +0000 Matilda Tjäder https://matildatjader.com/Shelf-Life-album-2026 Shelf Life, album, Doyenne (2026)Shelf Life follows a character who collects objects that share the same expiration date. As the date approaches, the inevitability of an ending emerges. Through repetition, obsession, and satire, everyday protocols are transformed into a dreamlike landscape where memory and surveillance take center stage. Shelf life is a designation used to determine the function and value of a commodity and to establish whether it is fit to sell, use, or consume. But what happens once an object crosses that threshold? Working through notions of ‘expiration’ in a surrealist and associative manner, the album explores the invisible infrastructures and systems of surveillance embedded in everyday life. The musical release Shelf Life is based on Matilda Tjäder’s eponymous short story, originally written for an exhibition in 2024 and later adapted for the stage as Shelf Life: An Opera, created in collaboration with Mathias Tang, Penny Yiou Peng, and Thibaut Knapp, and premiered at Inkonst, Malmö (SE), on September 26, 2025. Released October 21, 2026 Written, produced and performed by Matilda Tjäder Flute on The Supermarket, The Phone Call, Inhuman Eye and W and D by Angelina Petrovic Guitar on Eight Limbs, Eight Paths, The Phone Call and Shelf Life by Niklas Tjäder&nbsp; Drums on 26092025 and The Parasite by Rune Kielsgaard&nbsp; Song on The Bar by Thibaut Knapp Mixing by Daniel Tjäder and Matilda Tjäder Master: Daniel Tjäder The CD contains the libretto and artwork by the artist as well as photographs by Ellie Lizbeth Brown, and stills from the performance ‘Shelf Life: An Opera‘ (2025) by Marijn DegenaarSupported by Koda Kultur <img width="1440" height="1440" width_o="1440" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/578b88fed233e6d732bdc78b3dcd7bb360609cdb59f43219a202b4c295c95c2d/Matilda-Tjader_Shelf-Life_2026_artwork.jpg" data-mid="251731919" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/578b88fed233e6d732bdc78b3dcd7bb360609cdb59f43219a202b4c295c95c2d/Matilda-Tjader_Shelf-Life_2026_artwork.jpg" /><img width="1228" height="1202" width_o="1228" height_o="1202" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee581bc31f028f8bdb531088334ceca0b7d60eb3882d2dd3284b88ebc5c92bdc/Screenshot-2026-10-30-at-10.40.13.png" data-mid="253890860" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ee581bc31f028f8bdb531088334ceca0b7d60eb3882d2dd3284b88ebc5c92bdc/Screenshot-2026-10-30-at-10.40.13.png" /><img width="1174" height="1190" width_o="1174" height_o="1190" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4838b7a644f431c84b0820957ea47b6bbee8b35491cc7f5c8592e6871c9badd4/Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-15.01.29.png" data-mid="251731726" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4838b7a644f431c84b0820957ea47b6bbee8b35491cc7f5c8592e6871c9badd4/Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-15.01.29.png" /><img width="1374" height="1192" width_o="1374" height_o="1192" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4a8e0e8e1d6a34342279147874efc9dacd47321a63f49147f1f6b706748b50ee/Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-15.01.57.png" data-mid="251731729" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4a8e0e8e1d6a34342279147874efc9dacd47321a63f49147f1f6b706748b50ee/Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-15.01.57.png" /> <img width="1230" height="1204" width_o="1230" height_o="1204" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e97506a294de2cb09c1aad04347fad7f3ba4a13688e9caf1c1894003db23aa01/Screenshot-2026-11-02-at-15.08.44.png" data-mid="253943982" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e97506a294de2cb09c1aad04347fad7f3ba4a13688e9caf1c1894003db23aa01/Screenshot-2026-11-02-at-15.08.44.png" /> ← Previous &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Next → https://matildatjader.com/Interiors-2026 Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:50:23 +0000 Matilda Tjäder https://matildatjader.com/Interiors-2026 Interiors (2026)&nbsp;A series of four emitting and absorbing sculptures made from acoustic panels, with inbuilt light sensors that activate and modulate sound according to the influx of light within the gallery. Their sounds have been recorded in Lund, at four historically contested public sites of sound-production: Tetra Pak (the industry), Mejeriet (the music venue), Centralstationen (the locomotive), Domkyrkoplatsen (the Church bell).&nbsp; Sensors programmed by Mathias Tang Photo: OMN/Lunds Konsthall <img width="5416" height="3604" width_o="5416" height_o="3604" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3afcbfaad4ec1c467a430f58ddee5c2a254517bf14568c1e89a1bcffbd2c583/en-ros_14.jpg" data-mid="249708750" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e3afcbfaad4ec1c467a430f58ddee5c2a254517bf14568c1e89a1bcffbd2c583/en-ros_14.jpg" /><img width="5944" height="3955" width_o="5944" height_o="3955" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03caf24c153e4aa313c7a1affa7224bfc243e885b5547863c00357cac3088329/En-ros_17.jpg" data-mid="249708751" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/03caf24c153e4aa313c7a1affa7224bfc243e885b5547863c00357cac3088329/En-ros_17.jpg" /><img width="3366" height="5058" width_o="3366" height_o="5058" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c6ea765ba0271d6282ec063df09194ceec38f1dd25100d3551b5f157e91dd4c/En-ros_21.jpg" data-mid="249708755" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c6ea765ba0271d6282ec063df09194ceec38f1dd25100d3551b5f157e91dd4c/En-ros_21.jpg" /><img width="3796" height="5707" width_o="3796" height_o="5707" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c63af24b0d09ea0dcf8e3f28780b2f773a107341ca4743d3f1dc84b86956626/En-ros_18.jpg" data-mid="249708752" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9c63af24b0d09ea0dcf8e3f28780b2f773a107341ca4743d3f1dc84b86956626/En-ros_18.jpg" /><img width="5685" height="3783" width_o="5685" height_o="3783" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/755767eef9a24d3cb5feff505902458395f5f32c34b2f589490f9a6d8e00eaaf/en-ros_13.jpg" data-mid="249708749" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/755767eef9a24d3cb5feff505902458395f5f32c34b2f589490f9a6d8e00eaaf/en-ros_13.jpg" /><img width="2677" height="4024" width_o="2677" height_o="4024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/317d2355b6bb61aba8f4c11176a68f4cb27b1211e6196c31e258322bfb6f2904/En-ros_22.jpg" data-mid="249708756" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/317d2355b6bb61aba8f4c11176a68f4cb27b1211e6196c31e258322bfb6f2904/En-ros_22.jpg" /> <img width="3585" height="5388" width_o="3585" height_o="5388" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e52d0e761ac65a2c7f4fb1e65b6bc083316555f4e94a0d7a776f660ea5546993/En-ros_20.jpg" data-mid="249708754" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e52d0e761ac65a2c7f4fb1e65b6bc083316555f4e94a0d7a776f660ea5546993/En-ros_20.jpg" /> ← Previous &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Next → https://matildatjader.com/Vertigo-solo-exhibition-2026 Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:12:36 +0000 Matilda Tjäder https://matildatjader.com/Vertigo-solo-exhibition-2026 Vertigo, solo exhibition (2026)&nbsp;What can the vestibular system, our sensory system located in the inner ear, tell us about the relationship between balance and spatial orientation? Developed during the a residency at NEJD, Vertigo reflects on the relationship between sound and image through an interplay of disorientation and scale. Taking Walt Disney’s Fantasound, the stereophonic sound system developed for Fantasia (1940), as a historical point of departure, and drawing on research into two local sites: the amusement park Liseberg and its production of leisure, and Ringön as a site of industrial labour and production, the exhibition extends the artist’s ongoing investigation into the control and discipline of sound. Through a new work series, the exhibition explores how value is attributed to different forms of activity, aided and legitimised by language and plans. By destabilising a sense of vertical orientation, the artist reflects on whose activities and which modes of production are granted ‘space’, and what the ‘tuning’ of public life sounds like. &nbsp; 2. October– 18 October, 2026NEJD, Gotenburg, SE&nbsp; Supported by Statens Kunstfond <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/120bd870f647ddd3462be5e236ee0cbc4dce21fa306ab2b32f7f784292542ca6/_DSC6605-1-kopiera.jpg" data-mid="253891311" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/120bd870f647ddd3462be5e236ee0cbc4dce21fa306ab2b32f7f784292542ca6/_DSC6605-1-kopiera.jpg" /><img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a51ee59197151cb3ecf370bd8ccd4eea31ae9f6b655884f6e5144e7b0445cdf/_DSC6607-1-kopiera.jpg" data-mid="253891312" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8a51ee59197151cb3ecf370bd8ccd4eea31ae9f6b655884f6e5144e7b0445cdf/_DSC6607-1-kopiera.jpg" /><img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de174977b1e3a33ab339d99485bef7404b3b319df7399534a8f2601c4b618643/_DSC6609-1-kopiera.jpg" data-mid="253891313" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de174977b1e3a33ab339d99485bef7404b3b319df7399534a8f2601c4b618643/_DSC6609-1-kopiera.jpg" /><img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7cfe32323896aaed89c49dfc3791874dfc28ae7d14bbb483347277b48cb1ee28/_DSC6613-1-kopiera.jpg" data-mid="253891314" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7cfe32323896aaed89c49dfc3791874dfc28ae7d14bbb483347277b48cb1ee28/_DSC6613-1-kopiera.jpg" /><img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/705fc030b485bcfe4c503bded42964e6d889dff99cdc2a9c64367fa86c76b52e/_DSC6619-1-kopiera.jpg" data-mid="253891315" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/705fc030b485bcfe4c503bded42964e6d889dff99cdc2a9c64367fa86c76b52e/_DSC6619-1-kopiera.jpg" /><img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2db3fc72744f3eda1a77061b059adf675ed60eb12af995d84b9a95770a99a633/_DSC6627-1-kopiera.jpg" data-mid="253891316" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2db3fc72744f3eda1a77061b059adf675ed60eb12af995d84b9a95770a99a633/_DSC6627-1-kopiera.jpg" /><img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a68c4ab3ae1250c08d15ad2ef055ecffff73e13dd92fb6d24d8fbf137e01ca6/_DSC6629-1-kopiera.jpg" data-mid="253891317" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a68c4ab3ae1250c08d15ad2ef055ecffff73e13dd92fb6d24d8fbf137e01ca6/_DSC6629-1-kopiera.jpg" /><img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/89608b67b3fb1aaa71e8455c4415c4f26693efd2494c21abe240e4bf62cfdcfd/_DSC6652-1-kopiera.jpg" data-mid="253891318" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/89608b67b3fb1aaa71e8455c4415c4f26693efd2494c21abe240e4bf62cfdcfd/_DSC6652-1-kopiera.jpg" />Documentation: David Eng ← Previous &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Next → https://matildatjader.com/Legacy-2026 Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:48:15 +0000 Matilda Tjäder https://matildatjader.com/Legacy-2026 Legacy (2026) Aspect ratio: 16:9 18:28 min, no sound Legacy is centered on one of the most reproduced images in popular culture: the coverphotograph of Abbey Road (1969) by The Beatles. The original image was taken with a Hasselblad 500C camera-the same model used in 1969 to document Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 moon landing. More than half a century later, the site remains a destination forvisitors from around the world. The location today exists as a cultural monument and an ordinary pedestrian crossing on a busy street in northwest London. The crossing holds heritage status in England and functions as a site of popular-cultural pilgrimage.The material in Legacy is sourced entirely from the site's own public webcam, which streams continuously, twenty-four hours a day. Recorded over a period of six months, the footage has been edited according to time intervals, beginning at 7:21 a.m. and ending at 3:00 a.m. Concerned with the transformation of time, and furthermore time-based practices, into image. In this case- the image is endlessly reproduced, circulated, and archived by successive generations of visitors. The original moment has long passed; The Beatles no longer exist as a group, yet the image persists. The work remains without a soundtrack. Distributed by Filmform <img width="5636" height="3750" width_o="5636" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7eeed2eaab5bf8b51c8eac8406b181711293ad530dc37df03761e6b11a7edf5a/en-ros_12.jpg" data-mid="251708161" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7eeed2eaab5bf8b51c8eac8406b181711293ad530dc37df03761e6b11a7edf5a/en-ros_12.jpg" /><img width="2372" height="1538" width_o="2372" height_o="1538" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2ae48d91e64da0d35b30e8dd93a6f2fa9ff41a0752dbcf0e9782ebc35911c698/2_Legacy_Matilda-Tjader_2026.jpg" data-mid="253891430" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2ae48d91e64da0d35b30e8dd93a6f2fa9ff41a0752dbcf0e9782ebc35911c698/2_Legacy_Matilda-Tjader_2026.jpg" /><img width="2376" height="1536" width_o="2376" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f9e5e4371721e2fedc1b37710a77f026e4a8d369a2304bbbc41de18f43dd88d2/3_Legacy_Matilda-Tjader_2026.jpg" data-mid="253891431" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f9e5e4371721e2fedc1b37710a77f026e4a8d369a2304bbbc41de18f43dd88d2/3_Legacy_Matilda-Tjader_2026.jpg" /><img width="3799" height="5709" width_o="3799" height_o="5709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e48c63ec15baf4131f2ddad3726a417b8387fbd222cd1a70aa6c104449a0a050/En-ros_33.jpg" data-mid="251708162" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e48c63ec15baf4131f2ddad3726a417b8387fbd222cd1a70aa6c104449a0a050/En-ros_33.jpg" /> Photo: OMN/Lunds Konsthall ← Previous &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Next → https://matildatjader.com/City-Opera-remix-w-Andre-Mulzer-2026 Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:53:52 +0000 Matilda Tjäder https://matildatjader.com/City-Opera-remix-w-Andre-Mulzer-2026 City Opera remix, w. André Mulzer (2026)&nbsp;In keeping with the tradition of a remix, the performance City Opera (2026) and its constituent stems have been reconfigured for this occasion through rearrangement, the introduction of new material, and a process of reinterpretation. Remix and props by André Mulzer&nbsp;Premiered at Lunds Konsthall, 2026, as part of the exhibition ‘Rose is a rose is a rose’ curated by Sara Rossling and Paula Ludusan Gibe <img width="3022" height="1696" width_o="3022" height_o="1696" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f07e7ec3e08e437e4248f82b5ee9399b9541f2599b8f2beb90dc15aaee633bd1/Screenshot-2026-08-31-at-20.09.18.png" data-mid="251736169" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f07e7ec3e08e437e4248f82b5ee9399b9541f2599b8f2beb90dc15aaee633bd1/Screenshot-2026-08-31-at-20.09.18.png" /><img width="3020" height="1694" width_o="3020" height_o="1694" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c337d46b6ecaa0fd53c0d309ed8e1918212146c44a1f82eacc97ec750835491/Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-15.53.00.png" data-mid="251736173" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c337d46b6ecaa0fd53c0d309ed8e1918212146c44a1f82eacc97ec750835491/Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-15.53.00.png" /><img width="3022" height="1702" width_o="3022" height_o="1702" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f82dc7bba51f5fc43813b2f310f3b9b7cb20ff44cbf63c5f90d7aa03978f25d/Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-15.43.32.png" data-mid="251736171" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f82dc7bba51f5fc43813b2f310f3b9b7cb20ff44cbf63c5f90d7aa03978f25d/Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-15.43.32.png" /> <img width="3024" height="1702" width_o="3024" height_o="1702" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77473ab945c72ab5c54775df0eaa890dc5de04d0b848633a69ddc8de062365a0/Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-15.51.49.png" data-mid="251736172" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/77473ab945c72ab5c54775df0eaa890dc5de04d0b848633a69ddc8de062365a0/Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-15.51.49.png" /><img width="3018" height="1690" width_o="3018" height_o="1690" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d904be44785c3aa7fc4f1d5595b7ea9031be7d065d8ba7ce772b7831d5dc6372/Screenshot-2026-08-31-at-20.08.06.png" data-mid="251736168" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d904be44785c3aa7fc4f1d5595b7ea9031be7d065d8ba7ce772b7831d5dc6372/Screenshot-2026-08-31-at-20.08.06.png" /><img width="3018" height="1696" width_o="3018" height_o="1696" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/88279c20b782231429c999a26822fd5220e8f6a808b98303555db95a330db373/Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-15.58.29.png" data-mid="251736175" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/88279c20b782231429c999a26822fd5220e8f6a808b98303555db95a330db373/Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-15.58.29.png" /><img width="3022" height="1696" width_o="3022" height_o="1696" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/984aaeee9abcb3fec6e3ae794a1b4be6115b164a4a6017b2e8e50f99a4233d90/Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-15.38.21.png" data-mid="251736170" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/984aaeee9abcb3fec6e3ae794a1b4be6115b164a4a6017b2e8e50f99a4233d90/Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-15.38.21.png" /><img width="3024" height="1700" width_o="3024" height_o="1700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b19eb3753e95a027d45980803607276cb860c87cd8effc938e2df5f73e0dbc2/Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-16.03.52.png" data-mid="251736178" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b19eb3753e95a027d45980803607276cb860c87cd8effc938e2df5f73e0dbc2/Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-16.03.52.png" /><img width="3020" height="1702" width_o="3020" height_o="1702" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1419cd35e829e150a8c46579c3df0dda3fe9c6e383e14d3868c34acb5ed600a2/Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-16.07.31.png" data-mid="251736180" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1419cd35e829e150a8c46579c3df0dda3fe9c6e383e14d3868c34acb5ed600a2/Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-16.07.31.png" /><img width="3018" height="1696" width_o="3018" height_o="1696" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e5eee45f21a6b1e0a90395eab2860ca2be0ecd4cb751c68095d91b98abe347a4/Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-15.57.21.png" data-mid="251736174" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e5eee45f21a6b1e0a90395eab2860ca2be0ecd4cb751c68095d91b98abe347a4/Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-15.57.21.png" /> <img width="3016" height="1696" width_o="3016" height_o="1696" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a9b3160653a6d2c8bdf211b65f04a0372f6f5a7128af2eae47f04e0959e2a038/Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-16.01.18.png" data-mid="251736177" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a9b3160653a6d2c8bdf211b65f04a0372f6f5a7128af2eae47f04e0959e2a038/Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-16.01.18.png" />Stills from Alex Weisend’s video documentation ← Previous &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Next → https://matildatjader.com/City-Opera-2026 Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:47:59 +0000 Matilda Tjäder https://matildatjader.com/City-Opera-2026 City Opera (2026)&nbsp;City Opera explores the threshold between signal and noise: what we hear as meaningful, what we filter out, and which urban sounds we have learned to accept, desire, or reject. The seven-act performance unfolds over a 24-hour period, following four performers and an opera singer stranded in a city after their train is cancelled due to a “signal failure.” Moving through public space, they inhabit and embody figures whose voices and presences are alternately celebrated, tolerated, or policed: the street musician, the opera singer, the preacher, the club visitor, and the tourist group. The performance takes shape through sound, text, song, monologue, and choreography. Its point of departure is the rise of what media scholar Mack Hagood calls orphic media: noise-cancelling headphones, white-noise machines, and algorithmic playlists. These technologies promise control and focus by creating private auditory bubbles, allowing us to filter out unwanted sounds. Where Orpheus once forged a shared sonic passage away from the Sirens, contemporary listening increasingly isolates and excludes. Listening becomes a form of individualized self-care, shaped by the logic of platform economies. City Opera situates itself in the tension between noise and opera. Opera has historically been associated with separation, hierarchy, and control, while noise has been dismissed as mere disturbance. In the performance, noise becomes a symptom of the social and political structures that shape who and what can be heard, and how public space is negotiated through listening.&nbsp;At a time of increasingly privatized listening and personalized sound environments, City Opera insists on the limits of our ability to control what we hear. We are never fully in control of our listening, and when we believe we are, that control may come at the cost of surveillance. Libretto, composition, direction and performance: Matilda Tjäder Performers: Angelina Petrovic, Frida Andrea Keita, and Marie Vedel&nbsp; Opera sung by Vanja Spolin&nbsp;Premiered at Lunds Konsthall, 2026, as part of the exhibition ‘Rose is a rose is a rose’ curated by Sara Rossling and Paula Ludusan Gibe Supported by Region Skåne and Lunds Konsthall&nbsp; <img width="2370" height="1334" width_o="2370" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a62c7b33d26c2080c9558f44a7b7682d89e545a6ee099114729e4e9a39254c07/Screenshot-2026-06-04-at-11.26.02.png" data-mid="249707725" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a62c7b33d26c2080c9558f44a7b7682d89e545a6ee099114729e4e9a39254c07/Screenshot-2026-06-04-at-11.26.02.png" /><img width="3024" height="1694" width_o="3024" height_o="1694" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2edb002d8f280cc62aee2fc9af15839a39ea96808ba3c0b1e3429cebc8a4c810/Screenshot-2026-06-05-at-14.42.50.png" data-mid="249707727" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2edb002d8f280cc62aee2fc9af15839a39ea96808ba3c0b1e3429cebc8a4c810/Screenshot-2026-06-05-at-14.42.50.png" /><img width="3024" height="1704" width_o="3024" height_o="1704" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/817e8a5c92d1f152990952346ebdeb290bb7eaaaef962aa393ecd3fa19d22794/Screenshot-2026-06-05-at-14.46.49.png" data-mid="249707728" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/817e8a5c92d1f152990952346ebdeb290bb7eaaaef962aa393ecd3fa19d22794/Screenshot-2026-06-05-at-14.46.49.png" /> <img width="3022" height="1704" width_o="3022" height_o="1704" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd78eb024143b3d2be3632576ca279acecac0a414f2b42a46eea73e4d77b4c2e/Screenshot-2026-06-05-at-14.52.04.png" data-mid="249707730" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bd78eb024143b3d2be3632576ca279acecac0a414f2b42a46eea73e4d77b4c2e/Screenshot-2026-06-05-at-14.52.04.png" /> <img width="3024" height="1698" width_o="3024" height_o="1698" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a2d29f15fdbc11cef176eb9ec59aac107e8602f9122c3be2679f36a3a1f61f8/Screenshot-2026-06-05-at-15.23.54.png" data-mid="249707740" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6a2d29f15fdbc11cef176eb9ec59aac107e8602f9122c3be2679f36a3a1f61f8/Screenshot-2026-06-05-at-15.23.54.png" /><img width="3024" height="1700" width_o="3024" height_o="1700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bfb402ad4280ee9dcd3440e8f74408456e4d288d18f45231c33ca111786b3f69/Screenshot-2026-06-05-at-15.11.21.png" data-mid="249707735" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bfb402ad4280ee9dcd3440e8f74408456e4d288d18f45231c33ca111786b3f69/Screenshot-2026-06-05-at-15.11.21.png" /><img width="3024" height="1700" width_o="3024" height_o="1700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01ebca4c64876e9bb67aec0b5d4d6a39318934cd78c0d1bd13c92ec0d1fa497b/Screenshot-2026-06-05-at-15.12.42.png" data-mid="249707736" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/01ebca4c64876e9bb67aec0b5d4d6a39318934cd78c0d1bd13c92ec0d1fa497b/Screenshot-2026-06-05-at-15.12.42.png" /><img width="3024" height="1700" width_o="3024" height_o="1700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8165d80a64ab3fcab2d54245f97acdce847379d0f01a6aeb4c0a0d6b355a48e/Screenshot-2026-06-05-at-14.57.10.png" data-mid="249707732" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c8165d80a64ab3fcab2d54245f97acdce847379d0f01a6aeb4c0a0d6b355a48e/Screenshot-2026-06-05-at-14.57.10.png" /> <img width="3024" height="1704" width_o="3024" height_o="1704" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0a34ee1084761741eb654cde98350b0f8c9fef5a1a63e1b8b3b716dfc99c6600/Screenshot-2026-06-05-at-14.39.59.png" data-mid="249707726" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0a34ee1084761741eb654cde98350b0f8c9fef5a1a63e1b8b3b716dfc99c6600/Screenshot-2026-06-05-at-14.39.59.png" />Stills from Maja Li Härdelin’s video documentation ← Previous &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Next → https://matildatjader.com/Shelf-Life-An-Opera-2025 Thu, 02 Oct 2025 10:31:13 +0000 Matilda Tjäder https://matildatjader.com/Shelf-Life-An-Opera-2025 Shelf Life: An Opera (2025)Premiered at Inkonst, Malmö on September, 2025 Shelf Life: An Opera is an experimental opera that explores the absurd and often invisible infrastructures surrounding our lives. Through repetition, obsession, and satire, everyday protocols are transformed into a dreamlike landscape where memory, pattern recognition, and surveillance take center stage. The piece follows characters caught in compulsive cycles: one fixated on expiration dates, another a guard navigating the edge between order and chaos. Their stories unfold in a parallel dimension—a “fourth world”—where ritualized surveillance replaces reality and infrastructure masquerades as public service.&nbsp; Concept: Matilda Tjäder, Penny Yiou Peng, Mathias Tang, Thibaut KnappScript: Matilda Tjäder, Penny Yiou PengComposition: Matilda TjäderDramaturgy: Penny Yiou PengScenography, light, video, installation, graphic design: Mathias TangCostume: Thibaut KnappMusicians: Angelina Petrovic (flute), Rune Kielsgaard (drums), Niklas Tjäder (guitar)Sound engineer: Daniel TjäderSound and light technician: Linus Räntfors Fredriksson Producer: ScalingCo-producer: InkonstResidencies: MARC (Milvus Artistic Research Center), Inkonst, Country Town andAne-Grete’s Hus in Fox-AmphouxSupported by Region Skåne Captured by Nikola Lamburov (photo) and Marijn Degenaar (video) <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" 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The material has subsequently been analyzed, reworked, amplified and composed into a dynamic sound work for six speakers. Live and Breathe is an amalgam of sound waves from the machines that operate in the background of our modern buildings and signals from complex protocols designed to pass unnoticed. The sound work thus reconstructs the protocols by allowing the inherent frequencies and tones to appear in a new form. 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Nikhil Vettukattil, Amatter x Jennifee-See Alternate, Copenhagen, 2025Host: The Hearing&nbsp; is a play based on the short story Host (Country Music, 2020) originally set on the remote island Ervas, where several lives are interconnected through telepathy, chemically enhanced experience and listening technologies. For the iteration presented during amatter and Jennifee-See Alternate’s performance program in Copenhagen in June, 2025, the story’s characters took to the stage as participants in a trial.&nbsp; Written, directed and performed by Matilda Tjäder and Nikhil Vettukattil Performers: Marie Vedel, Tringa Gashi and Angelina Petrovic <img width="4480" height="6720" width_o="4480" height_o="6720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b626e3422a10816f99e057c353877a0b0073b0258d24fc0d3032551a2fd6cf98/JSAamatter_performance-25.jpg" data-mid="239931429" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b626e3422a10816f99e057c353877a0b0073b0258d24fc0d3032551a2fd6cf98/JSAamatter_performance-25.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1440" width_o="1920" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8005c64fc37f97e9500182188084f260b330f12f706b24e44a8695c9f3e1c437/JSAamatter_performance-23.jpg" data-mid="239931423" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8005c64fc37f97e9500182188084f260b330f12f706b24e44a8695c9f3e1c437/JSAamatter_performance-23.jpg" /><img width="11813" height="7875" width_o="11813" height_o="7875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f22080ab057c870c85d81c78576940be75a86eec32b6451f00dacdc328098ab/JSAamatter_performance-20.jpg" data-mid="239931416" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f22080ab057c870c85d81c78576940be75a86eec32b6451f00dacdc328098ab/JSAamatter_performance-20.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1440" width_o="1920" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b959908479d6cde966aed8dcab7f5cf36ea781ed66fbf65db414501e4e2be51/JSAamatter_performance-24.jpg" data-mid="239931426" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3b959908479d6cde966aed8dcab7f5cf36ea781ed66fbf65db414501e4e2be51/JSAamatter_performance-24.jpg" /> ← Previous &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Next →